Americans are weirded out when they realize Bollywood actors don’t sing but lip-synch to singers (who are often bigger bigger celebrities than the actors). I felt the same way when I first learned American talk show hosts don’t write their own monologue jokes. Vaguely cheated.
Err there are musical movies too though. And generally the leads sing even if they can’t. Like Russell Crowe doing a bad Javert in Les Miserables.
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Was it good? Seems like an odd conceit.
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Afaik, most people in showbiz are significantly-better-than-average singers. They’re just not as good as best-of-the-best singers. Same I guess is true of tv show hosts and joke-writing
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FWIW I think the singing issue is different from the tv show hosts + joke writing. For jokes, its about scale. Plenty of the hosts, e.g. Conan Obrien, Letterman, Leno, had all worked as professional joke writers. But no one person can come up with that much material every night.
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